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PLICATION man SEPT 18 m AP 3, I 1,329,4 Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

INVENTOR AT ORNEY ATE mic

MEDICINE-RECEPTACLE.

Application filed September 18, 1918.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN AUsUBnL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Medicine-Receptacle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a medicine receptacle that is intended for utilization by medical practitioners and dentists for retainmg drugs which are taken up by an instrument and therewith applied by the practitioner to the patients wound or tooth during treatment. Such drugs have been heretofore kept during use in their original narrownecked stoppered bottles, into which the practitioner inserted his instrument and therewith extracted the amount required for application purposes or covered the end of the instrument with a sufficient quantity of drug and therewith applied it in treatment, with the result that the instrument often took up more drug than required and caused waste of the drug or an improper application thereof, the sides of the instrument got 111- advertently covered with some of the drug, and the frequent opening of the bottle for extraction of the medicine tended to deteriorate its contents; The bottles that contain these drugs are often light, inconvenient to handle, and have to be held with one hand while the instrument is operated therein with the other hand for extracting the drug. This covering of the side of the instrument with iodin or any escharotic substance often causes detrimental or disagreeable elfects upon the patient by its inadvertently coming in contact with the skin, lips, cheeks, or mucous membrane during the application of the drug to the wound or tooth in the course of treatment.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a simple, conveniently utilizable, and improved medicine receptacle, wherewith the above mentioned disadvantages will be overcome, and a number of advantages secured.

In carrying out the invention, the receptacle is made conical and comprises a frustum-shaped base and a conicallyshaped cover. On top of the base is prov1ded an annular wall forming a chamber which is broad and shallow and only lar 'e enough to retain a quantity of drug sufl icient to be maintained in good condition durmg a cer- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

Serial No. 254,644.

tain number of treatments. Because of the shallowness of said small chamber, the drug therein may be readily reached by the instrument without any inconvenience or liability of the sides of the instrument getting smeared and it also enables picking up the exact quantity of drug required for immediate use, whereby the stated ill efi'ects are prevented, while the proportionately great weight and volume of said base and cover insure proper stability to the receptacle and further renders convenient the extraction of the drugs and prevents possible injuries.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 shows a sectional elevation of the medicine receptacle.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a modification of the receptacle shown in Fig. 1.

The receptacle is conical in its general configuration, and comprises a base portion 1 and a covering portion 2, the exterior sides 3 of which form a continuation of each other. Said base portion extends to about half the height of the receptacle, and is configurated frustum-like, whereby it is provided with a flat bottom surface at, a circular upwardly converging side-surface 3, and a top surface 5 which is flat and parallel to the surface 4. Upon the top surface 5 is formed centrally a circular upright wall 6, forming part of the base portion 1 and thereby constituting a retaining means or chamber 7 for the medicine utilized for treatment applications. The chamber 7 is made only large enough to contain a quantity of drug which is sufficient for conveniently picking up with the end of the instrument only the trivialv amount required for treatment applications, and which will remain sufficiently preserved under frequent exposure during a given number of treatments, while the base 1 is so proportioned with relation to the chamber 7 that it is many times larger than the chamber in volume, so as to give the drug containing chamber ample stability when placed away and particularly when inserting an instrument into the chamber for taking up the drug. The cover 2 fits against the frustum shaped base 1, is cone-like in appearance, and its circular upwardly converging side-surface 3 forms a continuation of the side of the base portion. Its bottom surface 8 is flat and bears against the top surface 5 of base 1 when in the closed state shown, and

, ably less in extent than the diameter at the center thereof is formed a cavity 9 having a diameter similar to. that of the eX- terior of wall 7 and a depth similar to the height of said wall, whereby the covering portion completely incloses the chamber 7 and surrounds it with a thick wall 10 of the material of which it is composed, thereby thoroughly protecting the drug contained therein against the exterior atmosphere, undue temperatures of warmth or cold, etc. Preferably, the height of wall 6 is consider chamber 7, to afford convenient access of the instrument into the chamber and prevent inadvertent coating of the side thereof with the drug utilized for application, and the consequent possible danger. of such drug upon the instrument coming in contact with an unaffected part ofthe patients skin or with the practitioners body.

When using this medicine receptacle a proper quantity of the drug is taken from its general container and deposited in the chamber 7 and then the cover 2 is placed upon the base 1 in closed position, and when it is desired to-utilize this drug the cover 2 is removed and the instrument inserted into the chamber 7 to therewith take'up the drug for application purposes and then the cover 2 may be restored to closed position. The massiveness of base 1 and cover 2 as compared with the small shallow chamber 7 and the general configuration of the receptacle tend to impart proper stability thereto at all times, and the thick sides 10 of cover 2 conduce greatly toward protecting the contents of chamber 7 against undue changes of temperature, which changes often have a deteriorating efi'ect upon the drugs. Preferably the receptacle is made of glass, but may be made of other material where the substance to be contained therein is such as is likely to act injuriously upon the glass. lVhen the'drug in chamber 7 is entirely used up it may be replenished from the bottle in which the substance is originally sold, the drug having been meanwhile preserved in its original bottle in fresh undeteriorated state, due to the bottle having remained corked and unused.

According to the modification shown in Fig. 2, the cover 2 is made frustum like and is in turn provided with an annular wall 11 forming a chamber 12, and a similar cover 13 cooperates with the cover 2 and is in turn likewise provided with a wall 14 forming a chamber 15, which is covered over and protected by a cover 16 similar in'configuration to the cover2 in Fig. 1. The sides 17 of members 1, 2, 13, 16 form a continuation of each other, and in their assembled state these members, constituting the receptacle, have a general conical configuration. With this receptacle several medicinesmay be retained in the chambers 7, 12, 15, and as any one of the medicines is required for treatment the members above the chamber containing it may be removed in their closed assembled state and access gained thereto without in any way interfering with the remaining drugs.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim V 1. A medicine receptacle having the combination of a base portion, an annular upstanding wall forming part of and projecting from said base portion being located on its upper surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means created by said wall to insure stability of the retaining means, a covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of the base portion and a central cavity adapted to fit 7 convexedly configurated and several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability thereof in its covering position.

A medicine receptacle having the combination of a base portion, an annular upstanding wall forming part of and projecting from said base portion being located on its upper surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means created by said wall to insure stability of the retaining means, and a covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of said base portion and a central cavity adapted to fit against said annular wall.

3. A medicine receptacle having the combination of a base portion, an annular upstanding wall forming part of and projecting from said base portion being located on its upper surface 'to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, a covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of said base portion and a central cavity adaptedto fit against said annular wall, and said covering portion being several times greater in volume than sa1d'ie taining means to insure stability thereof in its covering position. i

1; A medicine receptacle having the combination of a frusto-conical base portion provided with a flat upper surface, an upstanding annular wall forming .part of said base portion being located centrally upon said surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, said retaining means being broader than its height, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability of the retaining means, a conical covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of the base portion and a cavity adapted to fit against the exterior side of said annular wall, said covering portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability thereof in its covering position, the receptacle being widest at the bottom of said base and tapering upward convergingly therefrom, and the exterior surface of the sides of said covering portion forming a continuation. of the exterior surface of the sides of the base-portion and terminating in a convexed configuration.

5. A medicine receptacle having the combination of a frusto-conical base portion provided with a flat upper surface, an annular wall forming part of said base portion being located centrally upon said surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine, said retaining means being broader than its height, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability of the retaining means, a conical covering having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of the base portion and a cavity adapted to fit against said annular wall, and said covering portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability of this portion in its covering position.

6. A medicine receptacle having the combination of a frusto-conical base portion, an upstanding annular wall forming part of and projecting from said base portion being located on its upper surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means formed by said wall to insure stability of the retaining means,

portion a conical covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper sur face of the base portion and a central cavity adapted to fit against the exterior of said annual wall, said covering portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability thereof in its covering position, the receptacle being widest at the bottom of said base and tapering upward convergingly therefrom, and the exterior surface of the sides of said covering portion forming a continuation of the exterior surface of the sides of the base portion.

7. A medicine receptacle having the combination of a frusto-conical base portion, an upstanding annular wall forming part of and projecting from said base portion being located 011 its upper surface to constitute a retaining means for medicine which is above said base portion, said base portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means formed by said wall to insure stability of the retaining means, a conical covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of the base portion and a central cavity adapted to fit against the eXterior of said annular wall, said covering portion being several times greater in volume than said retaining means to insure stability thereof in its covering position, an annular Wall forming part of said covering portion being located on its upper surface to constitute an additional retaining means for medicine, and another covering portion having its underside adapted to fit against the upper surface of said first covering portion and having a cavity adapted to fit against the annular wall of its retaining means.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 13th day of September, A. D.

HERMAN AUSUBEL.

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